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COMMUNICATION MEDIA

CHANNELS
 Communication media means sending and receiving data. Media is the general
term used to describe the data path that forms the physical channel between the
sender and the receiver. Media can be twisted-pair wire, such as that used for
telephone installations It can be coaxial cable of various sizes and electrical
characteristics.

TYPES OF COMMUNICATION CHANNELS


 PRINTED MEDIA: NEWS PAPER
- Published periodically and carries mainly news stories with opinions and advertisement.
-Classified according to type of content, circulation area, audience, language, and periodicity.
-Divided into two sections: editorial and business

BROADCAST MEDIA: RADIO


-Radio is dominant among mass media because of the following:
 LOW COST-EFFECTIVE
 LOW DEMAND ON LITERACY SKILLS
 PORTABILITY
 A BACKGROUND MEDIUM
 ACCESSIBILITY TO THE VISUALLY CHALLENGE
 CLASSIFIED AS AM (AMPLITUDE MODULATION) AND FM (FREQUENCY MODULATION)
BROADCAST MEDIA: TELEVISION
-According to the UNESCO World Communication and Information Report, television
follows radio in popularity

NEW MEDIA
-a set of applied communication technologies that continue to evolve-Interactive that
uses internet such as blogs, vlogs, wikis, and other computed aided communications
that are found online.
-Characteristics of it are interactivity, ubiquity, accessible to individual users as senders
and or receivers, a medium of both mass and personal communication, and
multimediality
SOCIAL MEDIA
-Dominated the mass media in the recent years.
-Internet based applications that allow the creation and exchange of theuser
generated content.
- Types: Social networking - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr-
-Collaborative projects – Wikipedia
-Content communities – Youtube
-Virtual game - World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, ML

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